A few months ago I mentioned that my .NET and COM book went out of print. Well, after getting regular streams of e-mail from people who still wanted to get a copy (which I forwarded on to the publisher), I can now happily say that they are planning to print more! I believe it’s going…

Long time no blog, but I’ve got a good excuse. Since my last post, I’ve become a father! This event, of course, made me seriously doubt (even more than usual) the wisdom of writing another book. Here’s a quote from my wife: “You wrote a book during our first year of marriage. You’re writing a…

In August I mentioned some of the little improvements in Windows Vista Beta 1 that made using my computer more enjoyable. Now that I’ve installed the December CTP (released yesterday), here are some screenshots of a few new things that instantly jump out at me: Finally! A decent calendar and clock when you click the…

It’s official… I got a letter informing me that .NET and COM, almost four years after its release, is out of print. Of course, it still lives on in PDF form. Like Luke, I’ve sometimes been baffled by the apparent lack of supply. I’ve been told many times about someone that wanted to get a copy of…

Nate Dunlap is an awesome designer. Check out what he did with the Windows Media Player Visualization project I posted last week. Now, I’m guessing he has more programming skills than your average designer, but I love seeing a design go (essentially) straight from Sparkle to being live and animating inside Windows Media Player.

It had been awhile since I’ve given a talk on COM Interop & PInvoke, but last week I did just that for a developer lab in Redmond. For this, I dug up my old “.NET Visualization for Windows Media Player” example, which uses C#, COM Interop, and some APIs in System.Drawing (in other words, Windows Forms). …

On XAMLshare I just put the source for the video playing cards I showed in my PDC talk and on the Channel 9 video: Put the XAML inside XAMLPad (Beta 1) and qualify the .wmv references with their full path. Enjoy! Tags: PDC, PDC05

…was a parody video with Napoleon Dynamite and Bill Gates. It’s too bad it couldn’t be broadcast, because it was very funny! But Joshua Trupin has a blurry photo of it on his blog. Maybe there are more out there… Other highlights from Bill’s part of the keyone: http://microsoftgadgets.com/: Find out more about developing gadgets…

Now playing on Channel 9: https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114690 This covers one item on that top 10 list. And the focus is on an existing applications… taking advantage of your existing code rather than rewriting everything from scratch. Enjoy! Tags: PDC, PDC05